Midterm today! I would SO rather have a nap. But I think I'm pretty well prepared for it. I've done 66 practice questions this last week, which is probably the most math questions I've ever done in a week unless you count contests and standardized tests. I am becoming more and more of a pre-emptive studier, which is good but also very strange. There are still so many areas of my thinking where I stumble upon elitist slash slacker attitudes from my teen years. Erase, erase! I want to be a hard worker you can take at her word and at her face value! This requires from me: actually working hard, being more open (who got a tattoo meaning "clarity" again?), and wearing a superhero cape so everyone can see that my face value is "Princess of rank captain."

I often wonder what prompted me to get that tattoo. I love it, and I felt very strongly about it at the time, but I cannot articulate why. Maybe I just find the ridiculousness of the whole thing appealing: it's an obscure, totally fabricated symbol for clarity. How... lacking in clarity. I have a secret fetish for catch-22s, perhaps.